2. 17-1,2 Differences Obj. – Explain the attempts made at peace between the North and the South and why they began to fail.

3. Why the Controversy? States in the New Territories Missouri Compromise applied to the Louisiana purchase, but what about the Mexican Cession?

4. New President - 1848 Zachary Taylor

5. Zachary Taylor - 1848 Supported by Whigs Louisiana slave owner Only opposition was from the Free Soil Party

6. What about Cali? Calhoun threatens (again) that the South will secede Call Henry Clay! – Now 73

7. Compromise of 1850 Cali is free Fugitive Slave Act Taylor is dead so Millard Fillmore signs the bill

8. Fugitive Slave Act Illegal to aid runaway slaves Slave owners saw them as property Ticked off Northerners

9. Kansas-Nebraska Act - 1854 Stephen A. Douglas – Senator from Illinois Kansas and Nebraska would be open to Popular Sovereignty Missourians can jump the border to Kansas to vote (Border Ruffians)

10. Abolitionism Grows 1. Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin 2. Dred Scott Decision – Chief Justice Roger Taney said slaves can’t sue in court 3. Bleeding Kansas – Brutal fighting between “free soilers” and “border ruffians”

11. John Brown Takes sons to Kansas to help the free soilers Lawrence, KS- Ruffians kill free- soilers At Pottawatomie Creek, Brown killed five border ruffians with swords in the night